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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fumosité, from Latin fūmōsitās (which some forms are directly from); equivalent to fumous + -ite.
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Noun
fumosite (plural fumositees) (Late Middle English)
- Fumes; gaseous exhalements or vapourous releases.
- (physiology) Bodily fumes that purportedly cause an ailment or mood.
- (rare) The tendency (of a beverage etc.) to produce these purported fumes.
- (rare) Vapours bearing a stench.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 358-359:
[...] Ful were hir hedes of fumositee,
That causeth dreem, of which ther nis no charge.- Their heads were full of fumes from drinking wine,
That causes dreams of which there is no significance.
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